Appendix A: Changes

A.1: Changes between DOM Level 1 and DOM Level 2

Interface Attr: The Attr interface has one new attribute: ownerElement.
Interface Document: The Document interface has four new methods: importNode, createElementNS, createAttributeNS and getElementsByTagNameNS.
Interface NamedNodeMap: The NamedNodeMap interface has two new methods: getNamedItemNS, removeNamedItemNS.
Interface Node: The Node interface has one new method: supports.
The Node interface has three new attributes: namespaceURI, prefix and localName.
The ownerDocument attribute was specified to be null when the node is a Document. It is now also null when the node is a DocumentType which is not used with any Document yet.
Interface DocumentType: The DocumentType interface has two new attributes: publicID and systemID.
Interface DOMImplementation: The DOMImplementation interface has two new methods: createDocumentType and createDocument.
Interface Element: The Element interface has six new methods: getAttributeNS, setAttributeNS, removeAttributeNS, getAttributeNodeNS, setAttributeNodeNS, getElementsByTagNameNS.

HTML: The HTMLDOMImplementation interface was added to the HTML module.
Views: This new module defines the interface AbstractView.
StyleSheets: This new module defines the following interfaces: StyleSheet, StyleSheetList, MediaList, DocumentStyle and LinkStyle.
CSS: This new module defines the following interfaces CSSException, CSS2Azimuth, CSS2BackgroundPosition, CSS2BorderSpacing, CSS2CounterIncrement, CSS2CounterReset, CSS2Cursor, CSS2FontFaceSrc, CSS2FontFaceWidths, CSS2PageSize, CSS2PlayDuring, CSS2Properties, CSS2TextShadow, CSSCharsetRule, CSSFontFaceRule, CSSImportRule, CSSMediaRule, CSSPageRule, CSSPrimitiveValue, CSSRule, CSSRuleList, CSSStyleDeclaration, CSSStyleRule, CSSStyleSheet, CSSUnknownRule, CSSValue, CSSValueList, Counter, RGBColor, Rect, ViewCSS, DocumentCSS, DOMImplementationCSS and HTMLElementCSS.
Events: This new module defines the following interfaces Event, EventListener, EventTarget, MutationEvent, UIEvent, MouseEvent, and KeyEvent.
Traversal: This new module defines the following interfaces NodeFilter, NodeIterator, TreeWalker, and DocumentTraversal.
Range: This new module defines the interface Range and the exception RangeException.